On 7 December 2018, State Library of Queensland launched its latest exhibition, Home: a suburban obsession, as well as the Corley Explorer, a database of over 61,000 photographs of homes taken during the 1960s and 1970s. These photographs were taken by Frank and Eunice Corley who drove around suburban streets from Bundaberg to Beenleigh taking … Read more

In 2017, freelance documentary photographer and filmmaker Dean Saffron accompanied the maintenance team from the Australian Maritime Systems Group on an excursion to the Wyborn Reef Light, located approximately 16 kilometres southeast of Albany Island on the far northern edge of the Great Barrier Reef. The lighthouse was constructed in 1938 and later upgraded in … Read more

It was with great optimism that Messrs Blaxland and Synge arrived in the Mackay district from Sydney in the mid-1890s. Harold Forster Blaxland, grandson of the renowned explorer Gregory Blaxland, and his business partner Synge were intent on the commercial cultivation of coffee in the region and by 1896 had purchased land at Mount Jukes … Read more

On Saturday, 18 November 1978, the new Merivale Railway Bridge, connecting Roma Street and South Brisbane Railway Stations was officially opened by Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the presence of 850 official guests. The new bridge crossing the Brisbane River was constructed over a period of three years and three months and reported to have … Read more

A collection of fourteen black and white photographs of buildings in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of New Farm, taken during the early 1990s, were recently digitised by State Library of Queensland. These images, taken by photographer Peter Fischmann, can be viewed via our One Search catalogue. Further collections by photographer Peter Fischmann 2016 Brisbane City Council Local … Read more

A collection of twenty-four black and white photographs of streets and buildings in Brisbane’s CBD, Teneriffe, Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Annerley and Norman Park were recently digitised by State Library of Queensland. These images were taken between 1978 and 1999 by photographer Peter Fischmann and include buildings such as the New York Hotel on Queen … Read more

This 1933 photograph from State Library’s collection of images from Brisbane’s old Sunday Sun / Truth newspaper, shows a massive tower of car tyres at the O.K. Rubber Company, which was located on the corner of Barry Parade and Brunswick Street in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Fortitude Valley. According to newspaper reports the tower … Read more

Nestled alongside the Brisbane River on Montague Rd, South Brisbane and in close proximity to the William Jolly Bridge is the Pauls Dairy factory which has been part of the landscape on Kurilpa Point for sixty-five years. The history of the business is well documented, including the establishment of the powdered milk processing plant which … Read more

Toowoomba’s annual Carnival of Flowers has been delighting crowds since its inception in 1949. In 2002, State Library photographer Reina Irmer captured a series of 58 photographs from this event including images of flower beds in Queens Park and the decorated floats in the parade. According to the Courier-Mail an estimated 55,000 people attended the … Read more

State Library recently digitised a selection of 50 glass plate negatives from the Barnard, Lawrence and Loane Family glass plate negatives collection. This collection of images taken around Queensland came to the Library unidentified and undated, but thanks to the ingenuity of our staff we have been able to identify some of these images, including … Read more